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Thomas Pogge's picture Thomas Pogge
Leitner Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science

Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. Pogge is...

Current Fellows

Ashok Acharya 2012-2013's picture Ashok Acharya 2012-2013

Ashok Acharya is Professor of Political Science and leads the Program on Global Justice at the Delhi School of Transnational Affairs, University of Delhi. He was Henry Hart Rice Visiting Associate...

Najid Ahmad 2020's picture Najid Ahmad 2020

Najid Ahmad’s research focuses on sustainable development, poverty, environmental economics, global warming and climate change. He holds a PhD degree in economics and is...

David Álvarez García 2008-2010's picture David Álvarez García 2008-2010

David Álvarez García received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) with a dissertation on cosmopolitan and international justice. Before coming to Yale he...

Michal Apollo's picture Michal Apollo
Michal Apollo is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, a Fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice Program, New Haven, USA, a...
Parwez Besmel's picture Parwez Besmel
Parwez Besmel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. Parwez holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Affairs. His research...
Lisa Biersay's picture Lisa Biersay

Lisa Biersay is an Atrocity Crimes Prosecutor, specializing in International Criminal Law and Investigations.  For the last 13 years, she worked with the United Nations to prosecute a broad...

Tendayi Bloom's picture Tendayi Bloom
Postdoctoral Associate in the MacMillan Center

Tendayi Bloom is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Global Justice Program at Yale. Her research explores the relationship of individual noncitizens with States. She also looks at the implications of...

Daniele Botti's picture Daniele Botti

Daniele Botti graduated from the University of Milan (Italy) with a thesis on “John Rawls and International Justice: The Law of Peoples and its Philosophical Premises.” He earned a PhD in History...

Alexandra Bregman's picture Alexandra Bregman

Alexandra Bregman is a freelance art writer and the author of The Bouvier Affair: A True Story, originated from her 2016 Master of Arts in...

Paula Casal's picture Paula Casal

Paula Casal is a Professor at ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra’s Law Department, in Barcelona. She was a lecturer (and later Reader) at...

Maria Ginevra Cattaneo 2013's picture Maria Ginevra Cattaneo 2013

Maria Ginevra Cattaneo acts as an attorney in Milano and works on civil and commercial law, particularly on intellectual property law. She completed her PhD in Law and Technologies at the...

Sachin Chaturvedi 2009-2010's picture Sachin Chaturvedi 2009-2010

Sachin Chaturvedi is Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based autonomous Think-Tank. He was also a Global Justice Fellow at the...

Charles Chilufya's picture Charles Chilufya

Charles Chilufya is a business economist, whose Master of Research at ESADE Business School in Barcelona focused on reconciling business and society as a way of articulating the role of business...

Horman Chitonge's picture Horman Chitonge

Horman Chitonge is professor at the Centre for African Studies, and research associate at PRISM, School of Economics, University of Cape Town (UCT). He is a vising fellow at the...

Rohan Clarke's picture Rohan Clarke

Dr Rohan Clarke is a Jamaican diplomat and international consultant on illicit finance. He received his Ph.D. from Jesus College, University of Cambridge, as a Commonwealth (Cambridge) Scholar....

Antonio Davila's picture Antonio Davila

Antonio Dávila is a Venezuelan Professor in political theory and philosophy at the Pontifical Bolivarian University (Colombia), board member of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), and...

Özlem Denli's picture Özlem Denli

Özlem Denli received her Ph.D in Political Science and International Relations from Oslo University (Norway). Her teaching and research focus on political philosophy, history of political...

Tal Edgars's picture Tal Edgars

H.E. Prof. Dr. Ambassador Tal Edgars is currently the Group Executive Chairman of GBSH Consult Group - a global multi-award winning strategy and management consulting firm. He also sits on various...

Farsan Ghassim 2013-2015's picture Farsan Ghassim 2013-2015

Farsan Ghassim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his undergraduate studies, he interned with a Latin...

Joy Gordon 2010-2011's picture Joy Gordon 2010-2011

Joy Gordon is Professor of Political Philosophy at Fairfield University. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Her areas of research...

James S. Henry's picture James S. Henry

James S. Henry is a leading economist, attorney, consultant, and investigative journalist, who has written and spoken widely on the problems of tax justice and development finance. He can be...

Aidan Hollis's picture Aidan Hollis

Aidan Hollis is Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary, and President of Incentives for Global Health. Hollis studied at Cambridge University and the University of Toronto, where he...

Dev Kar's picture Dev Kar

Dr. Dev Kar is the Chief Economist at Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a think tank and advocacy group in Washington DC. Dev has...

Francis Karugu's picture Francis Karugu

Francis Karugu is an international development specialist with a mainstay in political economy analysis, development finance, impact assessment (monitoring and evaluation), market systems, and...

Sebastian Kistler's picture Sebastian Kistler

Sebastian Kistler works in a research project about Bioeconomy and Social Transformation funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany). He was a Substitute Professor...

Dave Levin's picture Dave Levin
Dave Levin is the Founder and Executive Director of Refugee Open Ware (ROW). He is a social entrepreneur and impact investor specializing in the use of advanced technology to help those...
Yuke Li's picture Yuke Li
Yuke Li earned her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Peking University in 2011 and completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale University in 2018,...
David Lighton's picture David Lighton
David Lighton is an entrepreneur, former World Bank staff member, and expert on financial inclusion. He is the Founder and CEO of Diameter Pay, a fintech company improving access to the global...
Mihai Lupu's picture Mihai Lupu

Having received his MA in history from Central European University with a thesis of the dynamic of the Communist Party School in Romania and its influence in forming the administrative and...

Tienmu Ma 2011-2013's picture Tienmu Ma 2011-2013

Tienmu Ma is a JD/PhD candidate at Yale Law School and the New York University Department of Philosophy. He has broad interests in legal and political philosophy, ranging from global justice to...

Xiaoyan Ma 2016-2017's picture Xiaoyan Ma 2016-2017

Xiaoyan Ma is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, visiting the Global Justice Program in 2016-17. She received her PhD at Nankai University...

Siphosami Malunga's picture Siphosami Malunga
Siphosami Malunga holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Witwatersrand. He is currently Programs Director at Open Society Africa. He was previously Executive Director of the...
Max Alexander Matthey's picture Max Alexander Matthey
Max Alexander Matthey is passionate about incentive-setting for the major global challenges of our century: 
 
During his graduate Master studies in Philosophy, Politics...
Krishen Mehta's picture Krishen Mehta

Krishen Mehta is a writer, teacher, and speaker on issues of global tax justice. Prior to making tax justice his main focus, he was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and served in their...

Darius Meier's picture Darius Meier

Darius Meier is a Swiss-Indian economist and ethicist with a research focus on human labor automation as part of his PhD at University of Lucerne (Institute of Social Ethics ISE) and Yale...

Zorka Milin's picture Zorka Milin

Zorka Milin is a senior legal advisor with Global Witness, working to improve transparency and...

Pahlaj Moolio's picture Pahlaj Moolio

Pahlaj Moolio is a professor and dean for Research and Development Office at the LSi Business School, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Before joining LSI Business School, he served as an associate dean and...

Vanessa Neumann's picture Vanessa Neumann

President and founder of Asymmetrica, a Latin...

Zeke Ngcobo's picture Zeke Ngcobo
Zeke Ngcobo has a Master’s in Public Health which she received at Sahmyook University in Seoul, South Korea. She interned for Sahmyook Hands, an initiative connected to the Thailand Health...
Shmuel Nili 2012-2016's picture Shmuel Nili 2012-2016

Shmuel (Shmulik) Nili is a Ph.D. student in political theory at Yale. His core research revolves around questions of global justice, mainly the democratic treatment of severely oppressive regimes...

María Julia Ochoa Jiménez's picture María Julia Ochoa Jiménez
María Julia Ochoa Jiménez is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Antioquia (Colombia). She is from Venezuela and holds a PhD in international law from the University of...
Gorik Ooms 2009-2010's picture Gorik Ooms 2009-2010

Gorik Ooms is a human rights lawyer, graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1989. He is a Global Justice Fellow for the 2009–2010 academic year. During most of his professional career...

Tobias Orthen's picture Tobias Orthen

Tobias Orthen works as a research associate at FAW/n in Ulm and has recently handed in his PhD thesis at the University of Ulm. His research focuses on the role rich top emitters and the private...

Chia-Yun Po's picture Chia-Yun Po

Chia-Yun Po is a fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Her academic interests include Russia, China, human rights law, and corporate governance. She...

Jakob Schwab's picture Jakob Schwab

Jakob Schwab is an economist and researcher at the German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, GDI/DIE). He has received his Ph.D. jointly from the Johannes Gutenberg...

Khadija Sharife's picture Khadija Sharife

Based in South Africa, Khadija Sharife (LLM) is an award-winning investigative journalist and senior editor for Africa at Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (...

Esther Shubert's picture Esther Shubert

Esther Shubert is a Ph.D student in the philosophy department at Yale University. Her research interests are in the area of global justice, with a primary focus on issues of financial integrity...

Jaap Spier's picture Jaap Spier
Sr. Global Justice Fellow

Jaap Spier (1950) graduated from Erasmus University (Rotterdam) 1973, has been attorney at the Bar of Rotterdam until 1977, lecturer of private law at Leyden University (1977 – 1981) and company...

Sebastien Tabash's picture Sebastien Tabash

Sebastien Tabash graduated from Georgetown University (2023) studying Government and History with a focus on the Middle East and North African regions. His research interests include democratic...

Jami Taylor's picture Jami Taylor

Jami Taylor is Vice President for Corporate Affairs at Protagonist Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company in California. Previously she worked for a number of years as a Senior Director for...

Dominic Thomas-James's picture Dominic Thomas-James

Dr Dominic Thomas-James became a Fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice Program in 2020. He earned his Ph.D. from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge...

Halit Ünver's picture Halit Ünver

Halit Ünver is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Frankfurt a.M./Germany. He is an advisor for digital...

Diana Velica's picture Diana Velica

Diana Velica first joined the Global Justice Program in 2013 with a research project on the importance of tackling the global arms trade within the international development context. Her research...

Matheus de Vilhena Moraes's picture Matheus de Vilhena Moraes

Matheus de Vilhena Moraes is a law student at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), located in the city of Franca, São Paulo, Brazil. His research...

Kate Wharton's picture Kate Wharton
Kate Wharton is the Chief Operating Officer at Refugee Open Ware (ROW). She is an international development consultant and social intrapreneur. With four years in Deloitte...
Xiangdong Xu's picture Xiangdong Xu

Xiangdong Xu is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Zhejiang University, and Director of the Zhejiang University Center for Human Values. Before coming to...

Matti Ylönen's picture Matti Ylönen
Matti Ylönen is a researcher based in Helsinki, Finland, and he spent year 2016 as a visiting Fulbright-Schuman grantee at the Global Justice Program. Having followed tax...

Past Fellows

Richard Adams
Tom Andreassen
Amanda Armour
Mario Ascolese
Camila Blanco
David Chan
Marie-Nil Chounet
Dana Ciccione
Ned Dobos
Zachary Foreman
Lisa Fuller
Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh
Vafa Ghazavi
Eva Guadamillas
Henning Hahn
Julia Hänni
Alex Henry
Ranjoo Herr
Annikki Herranen
Yu-Wen Hsiao
Yanyan Jiang
Peter G. Kirchschläger
Bastiaan Kock
Justine Kolata
Markus Labude
Nikita Lalwani
Robert Lepenies
Yao Lin
Matt Lindauer
Xuemei Liu
Xin Liu
Hannah Meyer
Florian Ostmann
Elizabeth O’Casey
Rachel Payne
Matt Peterson
Andrei Poama
Daniel Putnam
Mariana Ramírez Herrera
Manouchehr Shamsrizi
Julia Sichieri Moura
Hans Christian Siller
Jiewuh Song
Nori Spauwen
Gilad Tanay
Rosa Terlazzo
Max Webster
Xiu Zhang
Jianhua Zhu
Lieuwe Zijlstra